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Autore |
Jackson Bruce |
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Get your ass in the water and swim like me : African American narrative poetry from oral tradition / / Bruce Jackson |
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[Place of publication not identified] : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) |
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African Americans |
American poetry - African American authors |
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Monografia |
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Telling and learning toasts -- Functions and themes: violence, sex, and the failure of romance -- Pimps and their ladies: insult and reputation -- Badman and trickster: functional outsiders -- Shine and the Titanic: goodbye to Charlie -- Beyond poetry -- Badmen, crime, and jail -- Pimps, whores, and other lovers and friends -- Freaks and supersex -- Signifying and poolshooting monkey -- The Titanic toasts -- Miscellaneous narratives -- Short versus and drinking toasts. |
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"Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me" is considered one of the great, classic collections of African-American literature and folklore. Originally published by in 1974, it quickly gained the reputation as a classic collection of black folk poetry. This book will delight students of African-American culture and folklore, and anyone who enjoys the double entendres and hidden meanings found in the oral tradition, from its African roots to contemporary rap. |
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